the Saudi-owned MBC network
Nice to see they're still putting the money they make from selling oil to the West to good use
Including, if I'm not mistaken, a talkshow presented by four women that is notorious for breaking taboos and discussing extremely touchy subjects like homosexuality.
I just figure it is a fair point to make that the Saudis do a lot of stuff the West doesn't like but everyone is too busy attacking the traditional targets to care
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Turkish Anti-Israel TV show angers Palestinians
- 06/04/2010 02:56:43 PM
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That is odd when the occupied is outraged at a movie made to look the occupier look bad *NM*
- 06/04/2010 04:50:05 PM
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I think it is a TV series, not a movie? Not a major point but still...
- 06/04/2010 05:03:08 PM
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Got to love the Saudis.
- 06/04/2010 05:05:31 PM
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In fairness to MBC, they have good stuff too.
- 06/04/2010 05:25:16 PM
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Well that is a plus point
- 06/04/2010 11:58:46 PM
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And Turkey should be an EU member again because... why...?
- 06/04/2010 11:51:05 PM
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Yeah, damn them for letting the media say what it likes...
- 06/04/2010 11:57:37 PM
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"The drama, which was first broadcast on Turkey’s state television last October.... "
- 07/04/2010 12:46:35 AM
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TRT is like the BBC and many other public broadcasting channels...
- 07/04/2010 01:05:08 AM
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As I said, can you picture this on the BBC?
- 07/04/2010 01:17:10 AM
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No but better to not censor than censor seems a good rule
- 07/04/2010 10:03:52 AM
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Not when it's false, inflammatory and violent propaganda masquerading as "entertainment. "
- 07/04/2010 11:10:41 AM
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were you a medieval king, would you not censor blood libel ?
- 07/04/2010 12:31:44 PM
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As long as they don't criticize any nationalist politicians or the army. *NM*
- 07/04/2010 02:00:19 AM
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Well yes, that is what happens when you have a country with a constant threat of an army coup
- 07/04/2010 10:02:00 AM
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I could accept the latter on the condition of the former.
- 13/04/2010 10:12:01 AM
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You might need to have another look at your definitions
- 14/04/2010 11:34:01 AM
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It's hard for me to view a nation with a military government as "First World. "
- 14/04/2010 01:29:33 PM
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You do know Oklahoma isn't a country, right?
- 14/04/2010 09:51:21 PM
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- 14/04/2010 09:51:21 PM
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I'm a Texan; yes, I do. 
- 15/04/2010 02:42:45 PM
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- 15/04/2010 02:42:45 PM
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Fair point, I was forgetting that
- 15/04/2010 03:07:25 PM
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- 15/04/2010 03:07:25 PM
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I've been known to refer to OK as "North TX" but they don't like that.
- 20/04/2010 01:42:21 PM
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- 20/04/2010 01:42:21 PM
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As snoop says, your ridiculous hyperbole makes it hard to take the rest serious as well.
- 20/04/2010 06:45:40 PM
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Re: As snoop says, your ridiculous hyperbole makes it hard to take the rest serious as well.
- 21/04/2010 02:28:26 PM
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What am I talking to here, a wall?
- 21/04/2010 10:18:41 PM
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Just seems like every story I hear out of Turkey is something like this.
- 28/04/2010 02:33:31 AM
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Turkey shouldn't be in the EU.
- 07/04/2010 01:23:31 AM
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For the most part I agree.
- 07/04/2010 02:18:37 AM
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At least they chose a nice/accurate vacation spot for the fake Palestinians 
*NM*
- 07/04/2010 12:56:31 AM
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*NM*
- 07/04/2010 12:56:31 AM
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